Background
Brode, Marvin Jay was born on August 26, 1931 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Howard M. and Erniece J. (Jacob) Brode.
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Marvin Jay Brode
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Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1953; Bachelor of Laws, Vanderbilt University, 1954; postgraduate law, University of Chicago, 1954; postgraduate law, Harvard University, 1962.
Career
Since practiced in, Memphis
associate, Brode and Fisher, 1958-1965;
associate, Brode & Dunlap, 1965-1970;
associate, Brode & Smith, 1970-1972;
special judge, City Court Memphis, 1957-1963;
assistant city attorney, City of Memphis, 1965-1968;
special officer, 1991. Member President's National Traffic Advisory Committee, 1963-1964. Drafted legislation creatingTenn.
Arts Commission, 1965, and authored Tennessee seat belt law, 1963.
Membership
Member Tennessee Art Commission, 1965-1972, Mayor's Community Action Committee, 1965. Past guarantor Metropolitan Opera Memphis. Honorary colonel on staff Tennessee Governor, 1967-1995.
Delegate Southern Regional Education Conference, 1964, 65, 66. Member Tennessee House of Representatives, 1962-1965, Shelby County Democratic Executive Committee, 1966-1995. Honorary deputy sheriff, Shelby County, 1978-1995.
Board directors West Tennessee chapter Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, Memphis and Shelby County Multiple Sclerosis Society, 1978-1995. Member American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Shelby County Bar Association, Memphis Bar Association, Association Trial Lawyers American, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, American Judicature Society, Memphis Art Council, Masons (32 degree), Scottish Rite, Shriners, Phi Alpha Delta.
Connections
Married Freda Cohn, June 24, 1965. Children– William Howard, Robert Mark, Laura Mary.
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Nationality
American -
Religion
Judaism